# 1938 in architecture

The year 1938 in architecture involved some significant events.

## Events

* First woman elected to Royal Institute of British Architects, Josephine Miller.

## Buildings and structures
### Buildings opened

* July – Saltdean Lido and Ocean Hotel, Saltdean, East Sussex, England, both designed by R.W.H. Jones.
* October 22 – Oxford Playhouse, Oxford, England, designed by Edward Maufe.
* October 29 – City Hall, Norwich, England, designed by C. H. James and S. R. Pierce.
* November 14 – Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

### Buildings completed

* The Reich Chancellery in Berlin, designed by Albert Speer (rebuilt).
* Great Mosque of Asmara in Italian Eritrea, designed by Guido Ferrazza.
* Church of the Epiphany, Gipton, Leeds, England, designed by Nugent Cachemaille-Day.
* Metro Theatre (Toronto), designed by Kaplan and Sprachman.
* Finsbury Health Centre, London, designed by Berthold Lubetkin and the Tecton Group.
* Metropolitan Water Board Laboratories, London, designed by Howard Robertson.
* Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, Treasure Island, San Francisco Bay, California, USA, designed by George W. Kelham and William Peyton Day.
* Palace of Justice, Lima, Peru.
* City Hall, Mar del Plata, Argentina, designed by Alejandro Bustillo.
* Manchester Town Hall Extension, England, designed by Vincent Harris in 1927.
* São Bento Palace, Lisbon, Portugal.
* Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands, designed by Henry van de Velde.
* Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Finland, designed by Yrjö Lindegren and Toivo Jäntti.
* Brackenfell (house), Brampton, Carlisle, England, designed by Leslie Martin and Sadie Speight.
* The Homewood (house) near Esher, Surrey, England, designed by Patrick Gwynne (for his parents).
* Charters House, Berkshire, England, designed by Adie, Button and Partners.
* Hamstone House, St George's Hill, Weybridge, Surrey, designed by Ian Forbes.
* Middleton Park, Oxfordshire, England, the last great country house designed by Edwin Lutyens (with his son Robert).
* Houses in Hampshire, Sussex and at Eton, Berkshire in England by Marcel Breuer and F. R. S. Yorke.
* Gropius House, Lincoln, Massachusetts, designed by Walter Gropius with Marcel Breuer.
* Belvedere Court (apartments) in East Finchley, London, designed by Ernst L. Freud.
* Josephine M. Hagerty House, Cohasset, Massachusetts, designed by Walter Gropius with Marcel Breuer.
* Luma Tower, built as British Luma Co-Operative Electric Lamp factory, Glasgow, designed by Cornelius Armour.
* Fiat Tagliero Building, Asmara, Italian Eritrea, designed by Giuseppe Pettazzi.

## Other

* Construction work begins on
** Mark Keppel High School in Alhambra, California, designed by Marston & Maybury.
** Council House, Bristol, England, designed by Vincent Harris.

## Publications

* Lewis Mumford – The Culture of Cities

## Awards

* AIA Gold Medal – Paul Philippe Cret
* RIBA Royal Gold Medal – Ivar Tengbom
* Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Henry Bernard

## Births

* April 16 – Wolf Hilbertz, German-born futurist architect, inventor and marine scientist (died 2007)
* May 12 – Terry Farrell, English architect, designer of the KK100 and SIS Building
* July 10 – Paul Andreu, French airport architect (died 2018)
* July 14 – Moshe Safdie, Israeli/Canadian architect, urban designer, educator, theorist and author
* September 3 – Richard MacCormac, British architect (died 2014)
* November 30 – Andrea Branzi, Italian architect and designer
* December 30 – Susan Maxman, née Abel, American architect

## Deaths

* February 25 – W. D. Caröe, English-born ecclesiastical architect (born 1857)
* July 2 – John James Burnet, Scottish architect (born 1857)
* October 30 – Charles Klauder, American architect (born 1872)
* December 24 – Bruno Taut, German-born architect and urban planner (born 1880)
* December 25 – Theodor Fischer, German architect (born 1862)